Dozens of gun rights advocates spoke out against the gun control charter changes at Burlington's city council meeting Oct. 21.
VPR
Burlington is moving forward with a trio of gun control measures with wide backing from the mayor, city councilors and the city’s police chief.
On Monday night, the city council passed three of four proposed charter changes. The three propose to give police power to seize guns when there is reasonable suspicion of domestic violence, ban firearms from institutions where liquor is served, and require all unattended guns to be securely locked.
Another proposed charter change called for a permitting system for the concealed carry of firearms. Both Mayor Miro Weinberger and Police Chief Michael Schirling voiced opposition to that plan.
The proposed changes now have to pass city-wide vote before they’re presented to the state legislature. If Burlington voters and state legislators approve the change, the city may begin to enforce them.
"Before the meeting, VFSC vice-president Evan Hughes said that he doesn’t think the changes are compliant with a section of Vermont law known as the “Vermont Sportsmen’s Bill of Rights.”
ReplyDeleteThat law says, in part, that “no town, city or incorporated village … shall directly regulate hunting, fishing and trapping or the possession, ownership, transportation, transfer, sale, purchase, carrying, licensing or registration of traps, firearms, ammunition or components of firearms or ammunition.”
Since Vermont seems to have a state preemption law, these votes and political maneuverings are just feel good activities and beyond that fairly pointless.
Attacking the state preemption law is WHY they're doing this. At least one member of the burlington city council, as well as the city attorney, have said as much. Also, the mayor of Burlington, Miro Weinberger, is a member of Bloomberg's Mayors Against "Illegal" Guns. Also infesting our free state is a Bloomberg-connected anti-gun group called "GunSenseVT." We call them the greenshirts. And they will fail, make no mistake about it.
DeleteWe will not stand for this. There are more of us by far then there are of them.
Second row from the front, six seats down, next to the blonde woman, wearing the orange cap. That's me, fuckstick. Remember me?
ReplyDeleteYou and your ilk have no business in my state.
The gods of the valley are not that gods of the hills and you shall understand it.
Of course I remember you. I wonder if your bully tactics that work so well on Daily Kos will work in Burlington. We'll see if there really are more of you than us, I suppose it depends on where you draw the line. The true gun-rights fanatics like yourself, are such a tiny minority, a lunatic fringe if there ever were such a thing, that I doubt very much "you" can get anything done in the real world.
DeleteBecause the Gangs of Burlington are wrecking it for everyone.
ReplyDeleteOh wait...Vermont has the lowest crime rate of ALL FIFTY states.
Sheesh.
Come try that nonsense in Missouri. ;)